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[JD4570]

Hello everybody! Ssssipp. Sorry I don't do decaf.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good Morning clubbers have marion blackberry rolled oats here anyone would like some
day will be off and on need to make choices about chicken food store has been unable to get what I have fed for 3 or 4 years darn near out of food so if I am going to switch now would be the time ...

 

[microchick]

Oh gee. That was small beans compared to the stuff Amber did! She was an accident looking for a place to happen. Here is an off the top of my head list of stuff she did:

• Broke her canines in half biting rocks on the creek bed while playing with my nephew.
• Got kicked in the side of the neck and thrown about 10 feet by my horse.
• Jumped out of my truck window while moving about 30 mph down the road because she saw a rabbit and went after it. She was tumbling down the road when I looked up in my rear view mirror after she went over the edge of the door.
• She tore her patellar ligament in her knee after running down the hill and jumping sideways over a snow bank. That cost $3,000 for the surgery to repair her knee.
• She impaled the back of her throat with a stick while playing fetch. The stick started tumbling end over end and she went to grab the stick when it was end up.
• And her coup de grace, she slammed herself into an large old style rototiller with a very heavy metal piece for tilling a furrow. She split her upper leg/lower chest wide open. You could see her femoral artery and the ligaments and muscles. It took two surgeries to close that. The vet told me if she'd hit just a little harder it would have nicked the artery and she would have bled to death.

This is her. Ironically, she is the one who got me hooked on the breed. She was also a pet therapy dog.
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Squeeeeeee....Ari ears! She only used 6 of her 9 cat lives tho! What a trooper.

I'm doctoring an injury on Roxi at the moment. We discovered a cut on her upper right leg. Not too big, about 3/4s an inch but full thickness. Stupid Cattle dog idea of having fun. Let's chew up little sis! Smeared it with antibiotic ointment and sent her on her way. This is her second such cut. They love to grab one another's legs...being heelers. Guess I'm going to have to design some 'leg guards' for her only they would just chew them off of her.

6 degrees here this afternoon. The sun is shining, the new 4-5 inches of snow is pretty the temperature just sux. Down to below zero tonight then a slow warm up.

Not soon enough for me. In the mean time, I'm slow cooking a roast in a dutch oven on our heating stove. I mean, you got all this heat, may as well use it! I have a turkey breast half to roast for my dinner. I need to get it in a pan and put it on the stove also!

Stay warm everyone....or cool.....or dry.....God I hate this weather.

 

[CapricornFarm]

.....and it's a bear to cut and stack, branches going off at weird angles, and the damn thorns....it's only 'pros' are it's easily broken by hand as you ski by in the winter....and the flowers smell really good in spring.

No, no, no..... don't do it girl!!
Even the new shoots are pretty woody, I seriously doubt chickens could keep it under control.


Use a stick in the woods sometimes, old ski pole when it's icy out around the house to get up driveway for mail.
Only use crutches inside to keep weight off during flareups to speed healing.
My hands are pretty bad too so canes, crutches, sticks, and poles can be tricky.

I got some copper fit gloves today for $5.99! Then I saw them in Joann fabric for $20!

 

[Shadrach]

Morning all.
Afternoon Shad.

Got the first round of shoveling done, out to the coop and part of the run.
2-3" overnight and more to come.
Started soaking rolled oats in a Sav-a-Chick electrolytes/vitamins solution.
This avoids the 'wattle dippage' of an open waterer.
Gives them a boost and gets them hydrated in prep of the plummeting temp dip today and tonight.

How often do you do this aart?

 

[Shadrach]

@Shadrach are they a native species or invasive 'fur farm' escapees ?

Invasive with a capital I.

 

[sourland]

Invasive with a capital I.

They are brazen, single minded predators.

 

[Shadrach]

Nope, not a new breed of chicken. This is the rat we get here.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Wheelbarrows still work for me, but half my body weight (that would only be 72 #) is a near impossibility.

I used to be able to lift 100 pounds, but not any more. 50 pounds is plenty.

 

[Shadrach]

They are brazen, single minded predators.

Very rarely get them here. They like a bit of water. Apparently not as much as they got a while ago.
Outside they might get one chicken. If they get into a coop or run it's just a slaughter.
Been beefing up the coops. My Uncle used to farm them and they'll chew through mesh.
All the coop vents now have these with wire underneath.